Public APIs is a collective list of free JSON APIs for use in web development. You can find there web services for all kind of data – anything from weather and currency exchange, through government database, to random snippets like GIF images, Lorem Ipsum text, and quotes.
Category: Programming
A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.
“Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.” is yet another look at REST vs. GraphQL for the API implementation.
I’m involved with developing quite a bit of REST APIs at work, but for now we are just trying to buy us some time. I want to take a really long and good look at GraphQL, but I don’t think this will happen this year. In the meantime, if you have any good GraphQL resources, please do send them my way.
Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
“Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era” is a good collection of guidelines and concerns for password management in the modern day.
Here’s the bigger picture of what all this guidance from governments and tech companies alike is recognising: security is increasingly about a composition of controls which when combined, improve the overall security posture of a service. What you’ll see across this post is a collection of recommendations which all help contribute to a more robust solution by virtue of complimenting one and other. That may mean that individual recommendations such as dropping complexity requirements look odd, but when you consider the way humans tended to deal with that (they’d just choose bad passwords with a combination of character types) alongside guidance such as blocking previously breached passwords, things start to make a lot more sense.
Now there’s just one more thing: as good as all this guidance is, practically implementing it can be somewhat trickier.
AOS – Animate On Scroll JavaScript Library
AOS is a very easy to use, but fancy looking JavaScript library for animating page blocks on mouse scroll. It supports a wide range effects, like fading, flipping, zooming, and more.
